[Vwdiesel] no idiot lights, instrument and fuel gauges

[Dave]

Thanks for your replies.  I think it has to be a
ground.  I came home this afternoon and took out the
instrument cluster.   I hooked it back up and
everything worked.  But, as I was putting the radio
back in it quit working.  I got the radio back in and
then it worked...  I hate electrical problems.

Dave
--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/29/2007 8:59:48 AM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> vwzoo at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I am getting a car running for my daughter.
> > Everything was working and then last night the
> fuel
> > gauge, temp gauge and idiot lights don't work. I
> have
> > pulled out the instrument cluster and nothing
> looks
> > obvious to me as being wrong.  Anyone have any
> tips.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> 
>   Check for other things working or not like heater
> fan, 
> instrument lights, etc.  Could be a ground, cracked
> flexi 
> pc on the back of the cluster or a fuse.  I'd be
> first suspicious 
> of grounds.  Check the plug to the cluster itself as
> well as the 
> battery to body ground or engine to body and the
> multi cap-like 
> ground terminal up under the dash kinda near the
> steering column.
>   A test light makes most ground testing go much
> faster.  :-)
>      Loren
> 
> 
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